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Honey Lime Fruit Salad is the perfect dish for an elegant brunch, or a lazy Sunday morning. It comes together in just minutes with a few simple ingredients.

As the signs of Springtime grow all around us, I look forward to eating more fresh seasonal fruits. It’s also the start of a season of weddings, and baby showers and, in our family, birthdays. This Honey Lime Fruit Salad is a delicious dish to serve at your next gathering. Everyone loves, fruit, right? Serve it wine glasses for an elegant mother’s day or bridal shower brunch. For Easter, layer it into a beautiful trifle dish where you can see all the gorgeous colors. When it comes to brunch, I like to keep it simple and easy!

There’s something about honey and lime that I love together so much. It’s just so zesty and fresh, and oh-so-very delicious! I like using local honey, which is said to help with season allergies.

Make Honey Lime Fruit Salad with just a few quick ingredients – here’s how:

This happened to be the assortment of fruit I had on hand at the time, but this fruit salad is equally delicious with a variety of fruits. Add raspberries, honeydew or whatever your favorites are to customize it to your taste.

So while this is great for gatherings, you don’t need a special occasion to make this Honey Lime Fruit Salad – it’s good any time! And it’s kid-friendly, too. I pack a little of this in my daughter’s lunchbox to have at snack time. Whenever you enjoy it, you’ll love the honey and lime flavors together!

Easter is a one day holiday, but it’s one that can be super busy! With all the excitement, not to mention a little candy, it can be hard to get the kids to sit still and be quiet. This printable Easter art coloring page is the perfect activity for a quiet time and relaxing or just for fun.

Many years ago my family’s Easter traditions included going to church in the morning, a big lunch, an egg hunt, and then family photos in the afternoon. Sometimes we also did a big supper with ham. It was too busy for preschoolers, especially ones who didn’t like crowds or a change in routine.

When you add in a few chocolate eggs and marshmallow chicks, it’s easy to see how our holiday usually ended with cranky crying kids.

Since then we have simplified our traditions to focus on only the most important things. While that’s different for many families, there is one thing we all enjoy: spending time with loved ones.

Coloring is a fun and calming activity, whether you’re a preschooler or an adult. This printable Easter page has lots of little details that can be any color you want.

I made two different printables this time. One is a coloring page and the other is already colored in, in case you just want a pretty printable to decorate.

Easter is here! And what makes Easter so fun? Decorations! Easter decorations are so pretty and get me so excited for spring with all the fun colors especially after gloomy winters. So here are some really fun and impressive Easter Cupcakes to wow guests or just to enjoy yourself!

So I live where from about November to almost the end of March we have snow, freezing weather, and gloomy outdoors, so when Easter hits I get super excited to bake anything because of the bright, fun, spring colors I get to use for the Holiday. These Easter Cupcakes turned out so cute and everyone was impressed. The marshmallow flower was actually pretty simple which I was a little surprised about and it looks amazing! I also did a few mini cupcakes as well just to have some bite size snacks. And yes I did a homemade cupcake mix but any box cupcake mix works just as well.

Slowly add in the whipping cream (or milk) until consistency is creamy and easy to spread but not runny.

Chick cupcakes

The cupcakes with the chick peeps just frost the cupcake either by doing a flower tip design with a piping tip or just frosting it normal. Place the chick in the middles and place miniature fruit flavored marshmallows around.

Bunny cupcakes

Bunny cupcakes leave a little space in the middle of the cupcake without frosting, place the bunny there and then I piped flowers around the base of the bunny just to stabilize it more so it wasn’t falling over. Place fruit flavored marshmallows around.

Marshmallow cupcakes

Fruit marshmallow cupcakes, frost and scatter marshmallows around.

Flower cupcakes

Colored flowered cupcakes. Take your plain mini marshmallows, about 10-14, and cut them diagonally and then place in a plastic bag. Take whatever color of sanding sugar and pour some into the bag, (you don’t need a lot so start with a little and you can always add more), shake! The sugar should stick to the sticky side and give you a pedal looking marshmallow. Starting with a frosted cupcake on the outer edge put a ring or marshmallows sprinkle side up. Then working from the outer edge in keep making circles until you reach the middle.

Other ideas

M&M’s, sprinkles, cadberry eggs, jelly beans, or even plain frosting can look really fun, with Easter Cupcakes it’s hard to not have fun colorful treats so use your imagination or wonder up and down the candy aisle at any store and I’m sure you’ll see something fun.

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It still throws me off that Easter is sometimes in March. Is that weird to anyone else? I know it just depends on the calendar, but I’ve just always considered it more of an April holiday. Anywho – it’s on March 27th this year, so fast approaching! Luckily (or shockingly) I’m completely ready with some Budget Friendly Easter Basket Ideas for my kiddos to have a great holiday!

First of all, I need to be clear: I’m definitely FOR tasty treats in Easter baskets! It’s not a true basket without at least some goodie – chocolate, egg-y, whatever. That being said, I make sure to include more non-candy items for my kids to enjoy. Several are also great for family activities, so you can enjoy the day together!

Items I Chose:

Small metal buckets – perfectly sized, fun characters & designs, afforable AND durable so they can enjoy them as pencil holders, storage or toy carriers later

Raisin pouches – great healthy treat

Swiss Milk Chocolate Treasure Eggs – a fun new item from Choco Treasure! Lots of favorite characters to choose from such as Kung Fu Panda 3, Minions or Hello Kitty. Each is a delicate, wrapped chocolate egg that’s delicious milk chocolate. Inside that chocolate egg layer is a plastic egg, holding one of a large variety of toys or games! So far in our Minion ones we’ve got a couple figures, a little puzzle-type game, and a ‘coin’. Treat AND toy all in one!

I only spent $8-$15 per child for the stuff shown above (did receive the Chocolate Treasure Eggs for review) – definitely affordable! There were several things I’m going to give as a ‘family’ gift, such as the playing cards, since they don’t EACH need the same thing with that. But playdough, bubbles and jump ropes I wanted to give individually.

You can really mix it up however your family prefers – if your kids are more artistic, include more craft things such as markers, color pencils and stickers. It’s so easy to find fun, creative, useful, delicious things to fill your kids’ Easter baskets with, without breaking the budget!

What are YOUR favorite Easter basket ideas?

It’s not yet Valentine’s Day, yet I’m seeing random Easter items already popping up in stores. While a part of me is like ‘really, already?’ – another part is like ‘Cadbury Eggs? YES PLEASE!’ While other people go crazy for the jelly beans, I’m all about the Cadbury stuff, and have been since I was little! Last Easter my mom even sent me a package with a TON of them – she’s just awesome like that 🙂 To get a little creative, let’s give this oldie-but-goodie a fresh share: Cadbury Creme Milkshake!

Adapted from Chocolatemoosey.com

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When I first tried this recipe version, we’d just moved to Texas (this was in early 2013) and our old blender didn’t make it. I guess there’s plenty of other things that would be worse to lose in a move! Anywho, we had to buy a crappy blender just to get by – but NOW I have this amazing Nutri Ninja® Auto-iQ Pro Compact System that takes on my most challenging blender tasks! I highly recommend it for this creamy milkshake.

There are technically three ‘steps’ for this Cadbury Creme Milkshake: 1. The fondant cream 2. the whipped cream and 3. the milkshake. Of course, you CAN skip the homemade whipped cream and use store bought, if you’d like!

Fondant Cream

4 tbsp. Corn syrup

2 tbsp. butter, softened

1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar

In a bowl, beat the corn syrup and butter until smooth. Add vanilla, salt and powdered sugar. Beat until well-mixed. Set aside.

Whipped Cream

1/2 cup Heavy whipping cream

1/4 cup Powdered sugar

2 tsp. Vanilla extract

Beat the whipping cream until it starts to thicken, usually a few minutes. Slowly add the powdered sugar and vanilla, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. Set aside.

Milkshake

2 cups Chocolate ice cream

1/4-1/2 cup Milk

Cadbury egg (optional)

In a blender, blend these (except optional egg) with the fondant cream until smooth. Pour into a glass, top with the whipped cream, and, if desired, crack the Cadbury egg on top as garnish (and more Cadbury egg deliciousness). Enjoy!!!